New Capital One Offer for 50K Miles on British Airways Purchases [Targeted]

Check your Capital One Offers for a rewarding new offer to earn 50,000 miles on purchases with British Airways. This is a targeted offer, and only a minority of the Upgraded Points team is finding it in their accounts.

If you’re among the lucky people who have this offer, you can earn 50x miles on spending $1,000 with British Airways — which is excellent, in case that’s not immediately clear.

Here’s how to check for this offer in your account and the details you should know about maximizing it.

Capital One Offer for 50K Miles With British Airways

This offer only applies to purchases with British Airways, which must be made at britishairways.com to qualify. To earn the 50,000 bonus miles, you must spend at least $1,000 in a single transaction.

This offer is available in your Capital One Offers, and it can only be used once per customer.

If you have this offer, you need to click on the “Shop Online” button from the offer and follow that link to make your purchase. If you navigate away from that page or go to British Airways’ website on your own, without following the link, your purchase won’t be tracked by Capital One Offers — meaning it won’t trigger this offer.

This offer was first noticed by Frequent Miler, and some of the terms to note include the following:

• This offer isn’t available for Gold Guest List, Gold, Silver, and Bronze club tiers.
• The spending requirement doesn’t include taxes.
• The offer only applies to flights, and short-haul flights aren’t eligible.
• The bonus miles will be received within 45 days of an eligible transaction.

Note that the terms of this offer say you need to spend $1,000, excluding any tax. We’re not sure how Capital One might know the breakdown of your purchase between airfare, taxes, and fees. However, it’s worth following this portion of the eligibility terms to ensure your purchase qualifies.

There’s no end date listed for this offer, meaning it could disappear at any time.

Is It Worth It?

There are a few ways to approach this question. Earning 50,000 miles from spending $1,000 means you’re earning 50 miles per $1 spent — and 50x earnings is an incredible rate.

You can also consider our monthly points and miles valuations. We value Capital One miles at 1.8 cents apiece; that makes 50,000 miles worth $900 — a 90% rebate against $1,000 in spending.

However, none of that matters if British Airways doesn’t fly where you want to go, if BA charges much more for the flight you want to book than a competitor does, or your travel plans don’t match anything BA is offering right now.

Booking a flight just for the sake of these miles won’t make sense in most situations. Should you pay $100 more to fly BA than a competitor and therefore trigger this offer? That would probably change most people’s minds.

You’ll need to do the math for your situation.

Final Thoughts

A new Capital One Offer provides 50,000 bonus miles after spending $1,000 in a single purchase with British Airways. There’s no end date listed in this offer, so it could end at any time.

This is a targeted offer, meaning not everyone will have it in their accounts. If you do, you should definitely take a close look at it — and do so quickly, as we don’t expect this offer to stick around for very long.